OBITUARIES

Memorial service for Oswin “Karmie” Galle, Jr, 81, Lawrence will be held 2:00 pm Thursday, April 18, 2013 at First Presbyterian Church.  Private inurnment will take place at Pioneer Cemetery.  He died April 8, 2013 at Presbyterian Manor. Karmie was born on February 11, 1932 in Valley Center, KS the son of Oswin Karmie and…

Kevin John Wold passed away gently on April 5, 2013 with family members near him.  He was born July 14, 1953 in Watertown, South Dakota, the son of Paul Roland and Mildred Loretta (McMullen) Wold.  He graduated from Topeka West High School in 1971 and Emporia State University in 1975 with a Bachelor of Science…

Atha Fern “Hunter” Jones, 91, Lawrence, passed away at Pioneer Ridge Nursing Facility on April 5, 2013.  Graveside services will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Friday, April 12th at Memorial Park Cemetery, Lawrence, Kansas.  Atha was born on May 18, 1921 in Williamstown, KS and was the oldest of six daughters born to William…

Funeral services for Eloise Lorene Kerr, 79, Lawrence will be held at 2 p.m., Saturday, April 6, 2013, at First United Methodist Church.  Burial will follow at Oak Hill Cemetery.  She died on Wednesday, April 3, 2013 at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. Eloise was born on September 12, 1933 in Princeton, KS the daughter of Leslie…

Graveside memorial for Dorotha Bogard, 95, will be held on Saturday, April 13 at 3 p.m. at the Elmwood Cemetery, Augusta, KS.  She died April 3, 2013 in Lawrence, KS. Dorotha married Gale E. Bogard on April 9, 1934.  He preceded her in death November 7, 1987. Survivors include their only son, Mike Bogard, his…

Richard Cole, Kansas University professor emeritus of philosophy, died peacefully at home after a long illness on April 2, 2013, at age 83. Plans for a memorial service in May are pending. Richard Cole was born on October 28, 1929, in Evanston, IL, to Harry and Bertha Slavitt Cole. He is survived by his wife…

Michael D. Cherniss, of Lawrence, Kansas, passed away on April 1, 2013, at the Baldwin Health Care and Rehabilitation Center.  Mike was born April 7, 1940, in Los Angeles, CA, the eldest child of Edward H. and Blanche B. Cohen Cherniss. His sister, Terri Ann, predeceased him. He is survived by his loving and devoted…

Sylvia Sue VanWye died Monday, April 1, 2013, 12:07 p.m. at Brookside Retirement Community, Overbrook, KS.  Cause of death was C-diff and Parkinson’s. She was born on November 10, 1941 in Argonia, KS.  Sue grew up on a farm outside Helena, OK.  Sue graduated from Wichita North HS.  She attended nursing school in St. Louis,…

Funeral service for Lela F. Morley, 91, Eudora, will be held 10 a.m. Thursday, April 4, 2013 at Warren-McElwain Mortuary- Eudora Chapel. Burial will follow at Hesper Cemetery.  She died March 31, 2013 at Medicalodges Eudora.  She was born April 13, 1921 in Hesper, Kansas the daughter of Ralph and Ethel Westerhouse Votaw. She worked…

Graveside service for Wendy Michelle Laxton, 43, Lawrence will be held 1 p.m. Friday, April 5, 2013 at Memorial Park Mausoleum.  She died March 30, 2013 at her home. She was born on February 15, 1970 in Jacksonville, FL the daughter of Herbert W. Laxton and Shirley Jean White.  Wendy was a homemaker.  Survivors include…